--- title: People have called the lion king of the beasts for thousands of year… — The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts… · tree and pragmatics description: People have called the lion king of the beasts for thousands of years: the big golden male with his mane, the roar that rolls across the plain at dawn, and the pride that lies in the open without bothering to hide. Who acts: People, roar, pride. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, roar, pride), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:018-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts.lesson:0 # text = People have called the lion king of the beasts for thousands of years: the big golden male with his mane, the roar that rolls across the plain at dawn, and the pride that lies in the open without bothering to hide. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 018-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 male male NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 mane mane NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 roar roar NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:appos 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 rolls roll VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 across across ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 plain plain NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 41 without without SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 42 bothering bother VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present · perfect | People | the lion king of the beasts | | | | for thousands of years | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent king=Theme for thousand=Beneficiary | | 2 | **roll** | present | the roar | | | the plain | dawn | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across plain=Trajectory | | 3 | **lie** | present | the pride | | | the open | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in open=Location | | 4 | **bother** | gerund | the pride *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hide** | to-infinitive | the pride *not said here* | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:018-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts.lesson:0`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How close are apes to us?, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/17-how-close-are-apes-to-us/17/) - next →: [The lion: why people call it «king of…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/18-the-lion-king-of-the-beasts/)